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Ivory Coast: 10th Assembly of Federation of St. Therese of the Child Jesus
From 22 June to 11 July 2024, the eleven Monasteries of the Carmelites of French-speaking Africa – (Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazzaville Congo, the Ivory Coast and Ruanda) held their 10th Assembly at th...
India: Psycho-Spiritual Integration Course for Cloistered Nuns
A Psycho-Spiritual course was organised by the Federation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at Sadbhavana, Carmelite Provincialate of Karnataka Goa Province, Bengaluru, from 3-22 June 2024. Sixteen Nuns from nine Carmels and from the Raipur Carmel took ...
Viet Nam: news from the Carmelite nuns
The Federation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel held their General Assembly from the 5th – 11th May 2024, at the Bishop’s Residence at Xuan Loc under the presidency of Father Francis Nguyễn Quách Tiến OCD, the Religio...
IVORY COAST: FORMATION IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Fr. Jerome Paluku OCD, Secretary General for Missionary Cooperation, ran a Formation Programme in Financial Management and Project Organization for the Provincial Delegation of West Africa. The training sessions were held at Abidjan in the Ivory...
Avila: Meeting of European Formators
The annual meeting of OCD European Formators was held in CITeS from 29th January to 2 February 2024. About thirty Formators from all the European OCD Circumscriptions, as well as Fr. Roberto Maria Pirastu, Definitor General, were in att...
Poland: OCDS Formation Meeting
A three day Formation Meeting for members of the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order of the Cracow Province was concluded in Wadowice on Sunday 19 November 2023. The theme for the meeting was “Called to the service of the Church in a Carmelite c...
French-speaking Africa and Madagascar: Formation Session
At the end of October a formation course for formators was held at the Teresian Centre (of the Congo Commissariat). The theme for the meeting was: Formation in the intercultural era. It was conducted by Brothers Valentin Ntumba from the Congo ...
Updating of the Ratio Institutionis of the Order
From the 2nd to the 11th of October 2023, the members of the Commission for the updating of our Ratio Institutionis met at the Generalate to put together the various contributions sent by the Circumscriptions and to ...
Ivory Coast: inauguration of the scholastic year
On Saturday, September 16, 2023, the Catholic College of the Discalced Carmelite friars in Abidjan inaugurated the school year by entrusting it to the Lord. The Mass was presided over by Father Ambroise Marie Fare, director of the College. All the...
Spain: Seminar on Intellectual Life among Discalced Carmelites
From 27 to 29 June, CITeS (Avila) hosted a seminar on intellectual life in the Discalced Carmelite Order. There were 17 participants from 6 different countries (Spain, France, England, Italy, Poland and Switzerland). Their discussions and refl...
Meeting of the Formators of Europe and the Middle East
From the 31st of January to the 2nd of February, more than thirty Formators met to discuss the revision of the Ratio Institutionis. They addressed issues related to the different phases of training and the elements t...
Anniversaries related to Saint Therese of Lisieux
During this six-year period (2021-2027) we shall celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Thérèse of the Child Jesus (2023) and the first centenary of her canonization (2025). The 2021 General Chapter decided to propose to the Order a cyc...
Vietnam: new school year inaugurated
The Temporary Professed Sisters of the Member Monasteries of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Association of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Vietnam were so excited to begin the new term of study on November 2nd 2022. Thanks be to Go...
Mexico: 56th Assembly of COPEFOR (Permanent Commission for Formation)
From the 7th to 10th of November 2022, in our CESP Spirituality Center in Guadalajara (Jalisco), the 56th Assembly of COPEFOR (Permanent Commission for Formation) of the Carmelite Family was held in Mexico. ...
